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Like every year I sit here and think about what was this past year. Probably the most successful of my life for many reasons.

First of all I graduated. After some months living abroad and working on an important project in anticancer therapy I came back to Italy, I did last few exams and got my graduation. Best day of my life with my favorite people!

The blog and my instagram business grew a lot, I worked with many brands like Gole, Jay Bravo, Giorgio Armani, Simplicitty and Hashtag Sunglasses. I put all my efforts into it and I saw it growing and growing everyday. I also became part of an agency helping me out finding good contacts, but I still do all my stuff on my own, even if I admit, many times I thought about getting a full time helper since I have a lot of work to do, let’s see if in the new year I will decide for it!

I think I’ve never travelled as much as this year and that makes me so happy cause travelling and discover the world is biggest passion, I’ve always longed for people who does that full time. Where I’ve been? Well, from the beginning of January to end of March I’ve been in France and while there I went several times in Kehl (Germany) and Switzerland. I came back to Italy where during the year I went to Bologna, Ferrara, Milano and Alto Adige different times. But I didn’t stopped there: in May I went to Berlin, in September Qatar, Singapore and Indonesia, in October Indonesia and Qatar again and finally in December again France and Switzerland. Looks like a lot when written right? This created memories I will never forget.

What is gonna happen next year? Of course I don’t know, but professionally I hope I’ll start a PhD in medicinal chemistry, for the blog/instagram many things are planned: I’ll give you a little spoiler: next brand I’m gonna work with is Yves Rocher and for travels well I’ve got a big thing in mind coming in May: USA coast to coast!

Keep coming back here and follow my journey into this world that I’m happy to share with you!

After a random trip to Berlin, I’m back in my original kitchen in Colorno. Here I will show you how to make a very easy seabass that will conquer everyone at your table, also those I-don’t-eat-fish people, trust me. Another point for that recipe is that it’s supereasy! As always I make the fatty version, for the weekend, if you want to do the same but healthier forget the butter and drastically reduce the amount of oil, and it’s done! Let’s start with the ingredients:

Surprise, surprise: I’m here again. New day, new reportage from my small kitchen. If I’ve always dreamed of having a black table now I know that I don’t want it anymore. Let’s forget for a second that I’m an instagram maniac and that I love posting pictures of my food and dear lord Strasbourg is so foggy and grey and with a black table it’s impossible to take a good picture if you have no light, let’s forget it. The real thing is that it gets dirty in a second. You clean it, turn around, turn back, dirty again. After this experience I’ll forget that I wanted any black in my house, this for sure. But we’re here to talk about food and not furniture. What I’m cooking today is one of the most simple and at the same time more scenic recipes ever made. Everyone would think you’ve been working on it for ages, the real thing is that for most of the time you can take out your glass of wine, your book and wait while the things cook themselvs. This is artichokes’ magic, they make things look so pretty every time! It’s pretty healthy this time, just in case you can try to substitute the butter with olive oil, but even the butter is not that much!

I’ve been a ghost in the past six months, I know. I will tell you a secret: it’s practically impossibile to properly run a blog when you have a job that takes you 10 hours per day and you are also a student. Sad, sad story. This anyway, didn’t stopped me from taking pictures now and then of my new city, my outfits and, as you see today, my fancy food. I just had no time to look at them, to talk about them or write about them. But hey, today I’m here, I call it progress! This recipe that I will explain to you today was born from the passion that Alsacians (and me) have for scallops. Another thing that I can tell you is that you and your friends and family will get passionate about them too from the exact moment they will get out of the oven. This is what happened with my roommates (oh yes, did I told you that I have roommates now?); my fagottini never had the chance to see the light of the day, too bad for them, too good for us 😉 I would love to say that I can give you tips for the healthy version, but as you will see this is pretty fatty, the triumph of french cookery, so my advice to keep it healthy is to invite a lot of friends for an aperitif, serve this and you will have no time to eat more than two, they will disappear 😀

Like every year, here I am celebrating the birth of this little space of mine. And like every year I think back at the past year and well, lucky me it ended. It was probably the worst year of my life. In fact it was the year in which I forgot that I have a life, that I’m alive, I wasn’t interested anymore, I was just waiting to die. It was hars af, but I came out of that, I went living abroad all alone and I restarted from a new beginning. Speaking of which, we haven’t actually talk a lot since I moved, I will do a dedicated post soon, I promise, for now I’ll just let you know that probably I’m living the time of my life, and I’m so damn happy I took this decision! As you probably understood, this time I’m not superhappy to talk about my past year because it was full of darkness, the light came back just around september, so I’m just gonna leave here pictures from 2017 blog posts, thanking you for being the cutest followers and my friends (old and new!) and family for always being there for me, something easy to do when I’m happy and very difficult when the only thing I wanted to do was cry. Cheers to a better 2018 for all of us!!

You know, my best way to relax and forget the world around me is cooking, even better if I’m cooking something new so I have to follow some rules but always adding my personal touch. Today’s recipe is tipical in the south of Italy and it’s definitely a cheat meal as you can see in the photo there’s sausage! But you know I always tell you what to do to stay healthy, in this case follow the recipe completely but forget the sausage and you’re gonna have a good healty sauce for your pasta 😉 So let’s go with the ingredients!

Spring is finally here and we have to say goodbye to all these hot sweet fatty winter meals, but let’s do it with style! I did with a new version of my pumpkin and potatoes cream I showed you some time ago adding Taleggio, a tipical creamy italian cheese. So let’s explore the little variations of this recipe together and let’s try it out! ;-P

Ingredients for 5 people:

2 medium potatoes (mine were one big and one small, they were around 425 g, but consider you have to peel them)

700 g of pumpkin

1 sprig of parsley

1 small leek

1 chili pepper

250 ml of milk

84 g of parmesan cheese

1 bay leaf

50 g of butter

salt to taste

pepper to taste

taleggio

Wash and peel the potatoes. Cut them into cubes. Cut into pieces the pumpkin too. Wash and mince the parsley. Clean and wash the leek then cut it into washers. Now put the leek in a big pot with 30 g of butter and the bay leaf. Make it sear for a few minutes always blending. Now put in the pot potatoes and pumpkin and make them sear too while you keep blending. Add the chili pepper and cover all with water (I’ve also added a some spoon of broth, cause I prepare broth every week, if you have broth at home try it too!). Salt and season. Make it boil and when it does cook it for 40 minutes. After that turn off the fire and remove the chili pepper and the bay leaf. Whip it all with a hand blender. Warm up the milk aside. Then add the milk to your cream and make it boil again. Once it starts boiling turn off the fire. Add the remaining butter and amalgamate it. Add the parsley and the parmesan cheese and amalgamate them too.

As much as I don’t go outside my studio that much since the beginning of the year (Organic Chemistry 2 vs Sam, who’s gonna win? I did my exam yesterday and I have to wait 9 days to know if I made it or not!) the place where I express myself more is in the kitchen, which is really close to my studio ;-P. Also there’s a lot of chemistry too when you cook so I kinda consider it an extension of my studies. I still live my healthy life, but let’s be honest: is in these two ‘extra’ meals that I can make my fantasy work, as much as I have much more ingredients to work with. I also admit that I’m a vegetables-junkie so even in these meals I try to use vegetables as much as possible. Some people think that eating vegetables means ‘eating clean’, well it really depends on what you eat with these vegetables! Today’s recipe is an example of that: potatoes and pumpkin cream. Of course there are potatoes and pumpkin but there are also butter and milk! So this is definitely an extra meal for cold days in the winter when you need something really warm and damn good to eat, maybe with the ones you love. So let’s get started! 😉 Oh, and I like to say, that even this time I took inspiration from a cooking-genius: Sergio Barzetti.

Ingredients for 5 people:

2 medium potatoes (mine were one big and one small, they were around 425 g, but consider you have to peel them)

After ages I’m back with a new recipe! I actually cook a lot as much as through the years I discovered that cookery is a big weapon against anxiety, and also improves my energy while I study. Both thanks to my mum that had a very good education about food and (but I would be happy without them!) to my health problems, I try to have an healthy life as much as possible. I eat really green and clean everyday and I try to do physical activity 6/7. For beginners it’s always hard and it’s really easy to find excuses like work, tiredness and so on. I was the first on this when I had to stop sport on competitive level. But after a year of ‘I’m too busy – I’m too tired’ I went for routine blood tests and I discovered values that could come from a person who’s 90 not 19. Since then I made everything possible to get my youth back, and believe me when I say I can really see the difference! We actually discovered that there’s genetic behind my blood and physical problems, so I will never have completely clean blood tests, but I’ve also understand that living a healthy life would let me do almost everything the others girls of my age do, bad habits won’t. Anyway I have to admit that I’m a very good eater so I allow myself a couple of tastelicious meals to let me cook a lot and satisfy my palate. The recipe I’m gonna explain today is definitely one of this two meals, it’s a little longer from the ones I showed before, but definitely worth it. Obviously is inspired by the genius Sergio Barzetti. Let’s get started!

For 4 people:

400 g of bucatini pasta

1 kg of mussels

1 head of puntarelle

parsley to taste

basil to taste

1 chili pepper

1 glass of dry white wine

1 big potato

2 bay leaves

extra virgin olive oil to taste

salt to taste

pepper to taste

The recipe is pretty simple, but to explain it better I divided it in three parts. So let’s start it from the first one: prepare mussels.